The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-06-09

do with their paupera? Take care of
them? Feed them and clothe them 2 No,
they call upon the outside world and
especially upon America to take the
burden from their hands.
Whisky has made three millions Of
American paupers within the last FIVE
years. Who takes care of them? The
men who made them paupers? No,
they turn them over to the State and
to Christian Charity. You who are
honest aud virtuous have the bill to pay.
And yet we are asked to believe that the
men who lay the burdens upon US are
indispensable to Atlanta's prosperity.
We are asked to go to the polls on the
25th of November and vote to these men
the privilege of going on in their work
of. multiplying drunkards and orphans
and pauperism and starvation and crime.
Mothers and daughters of Atlanta, can
you Look God in the face and say that we
to whom the ballot belongs ought to do
it?
1t would be nothing more than simple
justice to make the whisky traffic provide
for the pauperism it has produced, but if
we should do that; if we should levy a
tax upon the business sufficient to sup.
port those whom it has reduced to power.
ty and wretchedness, in less than two
years the liquor traffic would be numbered
among the things that were. No man
could afford to engage in it. Year by
year these traders in iniquity increase
our burdens and multiply our woes.
Year by year the vampires get deeper
intor our blood. Year by year these
ulcers eat deeper into our flesh; yet we
are asked to believe that we cannot have
material prosperity without taem and to
go to the polls and vote them permission
to go on with their work. Mothers and
maidens, of Georgia, We turn to you for
counsel. Shall we yield to their
demands?
believe that every drop of the pure
blood in your veins answers, "No." 7
am persuaded that if fGeorgia's virtuous
women had the settlement of this ques.
tion, the whisky ring would be buried
beyond the reach, of any resurrection
arm, and epitaphed with every execration
that purity and honesty can heap upon
uncleanness and corruption.
Six hundred thousand men in these
United States are engaged either in the
making or selling Of liquors. Patriots,
philanthropists, think Of that. Six
hundred thousand men engaged in turu-
ing our food into a poison that makes
wives widows, children orphans and men
devils. Six thousand men engaged in
making loafers, tramps, dead.beats, luna
tics, idiots, thieves and assassins.
1t is an indisputed and undisputable
principle of political economy that
"every person who produces nothing
beneficial to society is virtually pau
per-" beg you to mark the words,
"Every person who produces nothing
beneficial to society is virtually pau.
per-" What are the doggery keepers of
Atlanta producing that is beneficial to
society? Will not some Solomon Of the
anti.prohibition party, some man who in
wisdom towers above his fellows-Will
not come sage like Mr.. "Mark WE'LL"
arise and tell us what The keepers of the
dirty dens of Decatur street are produc.
ing that is beneficial to Atlanta society.
If any one is ever so fortunate SIS to make
the discovery let him come to me, and I
promise him a notoriety such as no
Georgian has ever had. If they are not
producing something that is beneficial to
society, then according to the law which
have just quoted, we must class them as
paupers, and 10 this republic there are six
hundred thousand ofthese paupers to sup.
port. They produce nothing that is
beneficial to society: but that is not all.
If they were only class of paupers we
could feel very kindly towards them. If
they were only paupers, we could tolerate
them as we do other paupera. l have
seer the poor tramp who was perfectly
harmless. He disturbed nobody's prop.
erty and nobody's peace. But who will
say that the class of paupers which we
are dealing with to-day are harmless ?
Will Mr.. Mark Well say it? Will Mr..
Julius Brown say it? / think not. If
all the world were a book it would not
contain space enough to chronicle the
mischief which these whisky men have
done. And yet the citizens of Atlanta
and Of Fulton County are asked to
believe that they cannot get along with
out these vampires. They are asked to
90 to the polls in the approaching elec.
ton and say that they shall be protected
and supported in their ruinous work.
Daughters of Georgia, ye who wear the
white flow of innocence and purity,
could we offer any greater insult to your
feelings, than to charge you with giving
sympathy to such cause? Would not
such an indignity turn your blood into
liquid FIRE? r
But if you abolish the liquor traffic
how will you get revenue sufficient to
support the government? Every man, !
suppose, has his ideal Statesman. Mine
is the peerless man who stands at the
head Of the grand liberal party of Great
Britain. His is that mountain majesty
of worth, which looks forth into the SUMS
face like Alpine snow-imperisbably
pure.
When 1 am supported in my views on
any question by the wisdom of William
E. Gladstone, let no man call me fanatic
or madcap. When the English brewers